| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/F/129/3 |
| Title | [NUWT West Ham branch minute book] |
| Date | 1912 - 1919 |
| Description | West Ham Women Teachers Association (WHWTA) minute books detailing Committee meetings and General meetings.
Subject areas covered in the minutes include:
Formation of the West Ham Women Teachers Association
Support for Mr Daker's candidature for Vice-Presidency of the National Union of Teachers (due to his support of Miss Cleghorn's Suffrage Resolution)
Formations of the Rules and Standing Orders of the WHWTA
Discussion of sending a petition to West Ham Education Committee calling for equal pay
Report of the NUT Hull conference, 1912
Correspondence with the NUT over equal pay
Discussion of which candidates to support for Secretaryship of the National Federation of Class Teachers
Arrangements for social evenings
Nominations of WHWTA members for election to NUT Committee and as NUT conference delegates
Decision to affiliate to the NFWT, 1912 - 1913 (they continued being part of the NUT for a short while after affiliating to the NFWT)
Annual Report 1913 - gives detailed history of the first year of the WHWTA, including financial statement
Attempts to secure a Women's Suffrage Resolution in the NUT
Attempts by the WHWTA to gain help and admission from MPs that the NUT had treated them, and all women teachers, unfairly
Equal pay - details of discussions of this issue
Teacher's pensions
Reports of the President's Address given at WHWTA AGMs (including one by Edith Crosby in her year as WHWTA President, 1915
Discusson of what actions the branch could undertake in response to the recent outbreak of war
WHWTA support for NFWT conference, 1914
Handbill advertising a NFWT public meeting to denounce double standard of pay for men and women teachers, 1918
Continuation schools for girls and concerns over too much prominence being given to domestic subjects
Members present at meetings include:
Edith E. Crosby
Miss Dawes
Ethel Froud
Miss Groves
Edith Mildred Herbert
Adelaide Jones
Miss B. Palmer
Miss Pender
Miss Pitcher
Miss Savage
Miss Saxby
Miss Sharpley
Miss Somers
Miss Thomson
Miss Widdicombe
N.B. West Ham Women Teachers Association was initially part of the National Union of Teachers with some members also being members of the National Federation of Class Teachers. In 1912, due to Central NUT hostility to the Suffrage Motion, the women teachers from West Ham decided to form a local association within the NUT. They attended the NFWT conference and decided to affiliate to the NFWT. Ethel Froud was a member of the West Ham Teachers Association and she agreed to become the first General Secretary of the NFWT.
(includes mention of a Miss Pankhurst, elected as a Scrutineer, 1913 and present at meetings through to 1918) |
| Extent | 1 volume |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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